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Online learning celebrates a milestone in FLVS and Mary Mitchell. INTERVIEW | by Victor Rivero As Florida Virtual School (FLVS) celebrates its 25th Anniversary this year, what better way to showcase the amazing advancements in online learning than by chatting with 24-year FLVS teacher, Mary Mitchell? FLVS has changed quite a lot since its humble beginning in 1997 when it had only 77 enrollments and five courses.  As the 15th employee and first biology teacher hired in 1998, Mary saw these changes firsthand. She would often travel to students’ houses to give them their discussion-based assessments (and then stay for dinner...

When I was about 7 years old, my father brought me to his work to sing Christmas carols to his colleagues. I was thrilled to get them into the holiday spirit (and loved the attention of having everyone listen to my beautiful voice), so I belted out each song loud and proud. And while singing Feliz Navidad (a classic), I confidently sang the line “prospero año y felicidad” as “prospero baño y felicidad”. If you’re not familiar with Spanish, instead of “year”, I was saying bathroom.  As mortifying as this experience was for child Adelaide, it’s a great story to...

Add the pumpkin seed counting book to your classroom printable books this fall. It’s perfect during a pumpkin theme or after you’ve taken a field trip to the pumpkin patch. Incorporate the counting pumpkin seeds printable book into your kindergarten, pre-k, or preschool pumpkin activities during the fall. Use the book to explore important early math skills while practicing early literacy concepts with your students. Keep in mind that you don’t just have to use this as an emergent reader, either! You can easily take the printable and turn it into pumpkin seed counting mats for your math centers. Related:...

Shocking footage shows an officer in combat fatigues demonstrating a Kalashnikov machine-gun and an anti-tank grenade launcher to kindergarten youngsters.

I LOVE MY FANGSI Love My Fangs by Kelly Leigh Miller is a great book about wiggly teeth, for kids in Kindergarten and First Grade. The book is about young Dracula, making it a fun Halloween read aloud! Dracula has two pointy, sharp fangs. He is very proud of them! They are a family trait, after all :) Dracula takes good care of his fangs, brushing and flossing them daily. He is very proud of them! So Dracula is devastated when one of his beautiful fangs becomes loose and falls right out. He tries his best to push it back...